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Cons: -plot holes/bad narrative gaps/illogical character development to push a racism/anti-gay agenda -thoroughly unlikable characters with little to no redeeming qualities -one of the worst endings I've seen. Ever. -the writing is so derivative and trite that my girlfriend had to literally beg me to stop saying the next lines dozens of times. -the time lost on this dumpster fire of a series. -Ms. Washington's bizarre lip contortions. She constantly looks likes she's going to bite something. -theres no sense of subtlety or grace in getting the 'message' across. It's heavy-handed, hamfisted. It's a distallation of progressive ideals that leaves a greasy film on the palate. Pros: -it ended.

It's very, very intriguing, but the lighting is so incredibly dark that it absolutely has to be a creative choice rather than a directorial faux pas. It annoyed my girlfriend to the point that she couldn't watch it, and neither could I with her complaining about the darkness so much. Now that she's asleep and I've finished watching the first two episodes, I've got to say that the writing is pretty solid, and the mythos of a void in the middle of a meadow is fairly engaging. There's a lot of mystery to unravel here, and I hope it goes in new and unexpected directions.

Awful. Unbelievable. Divisive. Objectifying. Gross. I'm fairly certain a group of hardened just-escaped criminals wouldn't talk the same way as the men in this movie did. The dialogue was this weird pastiche of low-brow locker room ideational misogyny...it was clunky and cringe-worthy. Just rage, hate and sexualization dialled up to 11, for no good reason. We get it. Men suck and have no redeeming qualities. THIS MOVIE COULD HAVE BEEN GOOD. Maybe not great, as the plot twists were somewhat ridiculous, but good. If the narrative of the movie was toned down to something approaching reality, the feminist view would've been disseminated and points would've been landed. Instead, viewers are brow-beaten with almost embarassing attacks on men in every conceivable way, and it makes the female side seem so much more toxic than it should be. I won't leave spoilers here, even for an awful movie. Suffice it to say that if soldiers had acted the way these men did in the real WW2, the Allies would've lost the war. Netflix sponsoring something like this, and other movies of its ilk is making me reconsider my years long subscription. It's that bad.

This is one of those very well made movies that gets killed by its writing. The directing and visuals are fantastic, but there was never a point that I didn't predict. The IDEA of this movie was great, the execution, not so much.